A Survey of Blob Detection Algorithms for Biomedical Images

This paper presents a survey of blob detection methods which has been applied on image processing with relation of medical images proposed by literature. “The blob detection is a mathematical method which detects regions or points in digital images”. [1] The regions or points which have noticeable difference with their surroundings is called blob. Given the increased interest in biomedical image processing system, many algorithms and methods have been reported to apply but there is no systematic survey and classification of the blob detection for medical images and how they have been assessed and applied. The findings, which is the most usable methods of blob detectors in biomedical image processing has been presented. It was also investigated how these studies have been surveyed, how they evolved in the main digital libraries over the last decade, and what points deserves further attention, through new research. From this survey, practitioners and researchers can adopt the blob detection methods and analyze to use these methods in their research for further development.